Jaquan Lyle’s play last season at Evansville Bosse and with the Eric Gordon All-Stars this spring helped solidify a top 15 national ranking in the 2014 class by ESPN.com and offers from Indiana, Illinois, Purdue and Xavier.

The 6-foot-4, 187-pound guard recently made the switch to Spiece prior to the July evaluation period. Inside the Hall caught up with Lyle at the GRBA National Championships for a Q & A:

Playing with the Spiece Indy Heat 16′s the last couple of tournaments, how has that been? What’s your relationship with James Blackmon Jr. and how’s that growing?

“Me and Blackmon, our relationship is good. We’re starting to get a real relationship like brothers. I’ve been at his house the past two weeks ever since the Best of the Midwest. We’ved bonded real good.”

What are you doing specifically to work on your game this summer? Obviously a game like you just played, winning by 40 points, you’re not really getting the high level of competition.

“Games like this I just try my best to find my teammates. Because in the clutch games, they’re going have to look up to me to step up, take that role and do scoring. So I try find them as much as I can during these type of 40-point blowouts. To work on my game, shooting the shots I need to shoot, passing the ball, handling it a lot better, that’s basically it.”

Do you notice any coaches here watching you today at all or do you try not to pay attention to that?

“Yeah, I noticed them today. It was (Tom) Izzo, (Tom) Crean, a Purdue assistant. I notice them at these type of games. It’s a 40-point blowout. You’re focused on the game, but you’re not really focused on the game like it’s a close one.”

Most important question of the day, what happened to the hair?

“Oh, man. Me and James made a bet. We played downstairs in the basement because he has a court in house. So we played downstairs in his basement and he said if he beat me, I had to get it cut off. He beat me by two, so I had to get it cut off.”

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2014 Evansville Bosse wing Jaquan Lyle played the spring AAU schedule with the Eric Gordon 15-and-under team, but made the move to Spiece Indy Heat 16-and-under for the summer.

The 6-foot-4, 187-pound Lyle holds offers from Indiana, Illinois, Purdue and Xavier.

Inside the Hall caught up with ESPN.com’s No. 10 player nationally in the 2014 class after a pool play game at the adidas Invitational on Wednesday for a Q & A:

On his debut with Spiece Indy Heat:

“The first game was pretty rough. I don’t think I scored. I wasn’t really looking for my shot. I was finding my players, rebounding the ball and playing D. It was good overall.”

On why he moved from Eric Gordon to Spiece:

“I felt like it was needed for me to get better as a player because playing 15-and-under, I just killed. I just wanted to move up and get some competition.”

On recent developments in his recruitment and Indiana’s recruitment of him:

“Michigan State is showing the most interest right now and Ohio State. West Virginia said they’ll watch me a lot this weekend. Indiana is still recruiting me real hard.”

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